The steward placed him with three young women dressed like parrot Their hands were resting on the table, red speared at the tips.

列车乘务员让他，和三个打扮得,像鹦鹉的年轻女人，坐在一起,她们的嘴唇涂得红红的，手放在桌子上。

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Now in a stoplight, it only has three, one is tempted to say, variables plainly differing from each other: red, yellow and green we have two ways of thinking about the red light.

交通灯，三种灯，红黄绿，它们的颜色和彼此不能,我们有两种方式认识红灯的意思。

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